David Beckham broke out his stars and stripes towel yesterday to hit the beach in Malibu. He's back home in LA after his weekend trip to Washington, DC, where he thrilled the crowd by going shirtless yet again. David's abs didn't make it into the Final Four of our Summer Shirtless Bracket, but make sure to cast your vote on the last remaining hotties! Victoria and Cruz are en route back home to the rest of the Beckhams boys, amid news that Victoria's happy with her three kids and isn't trying for a girl. She'll get a whole lot of time with ladies, though, with her upcoming first appearance on The View this September 14.

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Anna Wintour stopped by Letterman last night to talk about The September Issue and the famously ice-y Vogue editor let down her guard a bit for Dave. That doesn't mean she kept her mouth shut, however, as she dispensed some fashion advice on his choice of suits and socks. Check out the preview from today's PopSugar Rush now!

Cameras, HDTVs and free almonds are a few of the things you'll find in today's deal roundup.

Computer Gear!

• 16" HP G60 for $449.98 + Free Shipping (Regular Price: $560)
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• Logitech MX Revolution Cordless Laser Mouse for $39.99 + Free Shipping (Regular Price: $73)
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Not Computer Gear!

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• 12MP Samsung SL820 Digital Camera With HD Video for $169.99 + Free Shipping (Regular Price: $210)
• Creative Vado 2 Hour Pocket Video Camcorder for $39.99 + Free Shipping (Regular Price: $92)

Free Stuff!

• Chick-Fil-A Sandwich for $0 (use this form)
• 8×10 Collage Print at Walgreens for $0 (use coupon code FUNDAY and this form)
• Almond Tin for $0 (use this form)
• Pei Wei Japanese Chile Beef Ramen for $0 (use this form)
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Thanks Slickdeals, Fatwallet, TechDealDigger, TechBargains, CheapStingyBargains, CheapCollegeGamers, and GamerHotline!

The Wall Street Journal says Steve Jobs is personally overseeing the development of Apple's rumored tablet and even manages to eke a non-reply out of the CEO.

In an experiment involving mouse breeding and microgravity, scientists learn that mammals may have difficulty giving birth to healthy babies in space or on other planets' low gravity.

The H1N1 swine flu could kill as many as 90,000 Americans and land up to 1.8 million in the hospital, according to a report issued yesterday by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology ( PCAST ). [More]

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay Returns With Guns Blazing  —  When The Pirate Bay was shut down yesterday many believed that this was the end for the Internet's largest BitTorrent tracker.  —  However, despite the fact that the site is set to be sold later this week, the Pirate Bay team worked around the clock …

The Way We Live Now: Bartering. And gambling. Bartering and gambling. We've regressed.

"Banks" with their "money" and complex "economic systems"—bah. They got us into this mess. Regression is the new progress. In Italy, they're moving back to real, sustainable trading systems, just like they had in the dark ages. Keep your "Euros," Adam Smith; Italian banks are now accepting ham and wine as collateral for loans. When the borrower inevitably defaults, the banker will still be able to get drunk.

And eat ham!

Not that we're all as advanced as pork-hoarding Italianos. Some people are still giving "Money" to "art." Unless art is better kindling than money, stop that immediately. In Maine, backwards yokels are fighting each other over the rights to harvest lobsters.

Which, clearly, are less valuable than ham.

Luckily, if you're not skilled enough to raise fine hams, there's another lucrative profession remaining: swindler. Simple-minded Americans continue to willingly hand over their hard-earned lucre in order to participate in laughably rigged games of chance. Non-pork farmers all dream of winning the lottery—or, failing that, of selling the winning lottery ticket. One store in Queens sold two winning lottery tickets in the past eight weeks! "What Are The Odds?" asks the New York Times, apparently not rhetorically since they didn't bother to call some stats professor at Queens College to answer the question. Here: there are 16,000 ticket outlets in the state, so assuming equal ticket sales at each, the odds are one in 16,000. Once they sold the first winner, the odds for selling a winner for the next drawing, or the next one, would also be one in 16,000.

Which is to say: poor odds. Invest in ham.

AT&T will provide wireless access for a new e-book reader by Sony, reflecting the phone giant’s goal of expanding the market for mobile devices.

After a day of internet cat and mouse with Swedish censors, The Pirate Bay is back online. In a victory speech of sorts, the crew evokes one of Winston Churchill's most famous speeches, delivered during the darkest days of World War II. The Bay will transform from a free BitTorrent tracker/index to a paid media site.

Sony introduced a new touchscreen e-book reader with wireless connectivity that also allows users to download books from their nearest public libraries for free. Sony's latest reader poses the strongest threat to the popular Amazon's Kindle e-reader.

Dear EarthTalk: Where can I locate directories of environmental groups, businesses and jobs so that I can get involved in making a difference? -- Jeanette, Carle Place, NY

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Jordan Weitz / Google LatLong:

Arterial traffic available on Google Maps  —  Commuters have long relied on traffic sites to help them determine their last-minute path around poor traffic on the highway.  But if the traffic looks bad on the highways, you'll probably want to know how it looks on the alternate routes through arterials.

When Columbia announced their upcoming project with the director, they tried to keep the plot secret. Why bother? The treatment leaked and the movie is full of emo teens, just like everything else he's done (except Milk).

Will someone please tell Gus Van Sant that he is not an angsty gay teen anymore? While we're not asking him to make G.I. Joe 2, he couldn't do something a little bit more than Restless, the story of a young, moody boy who goes to strangers' funerals to cope with his parents' deaths. He meets a young girl in a graveyard who only has six months to live. The film's budget is set at $15 million, $2.5 million of which is reserved for the eyeliner and Manic Panic.

Don't get us wrong, we loved Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, and Good Will Hunting. He even managed to change his formula up by introducing an sad teen (Joaquin Phoenix, before the beard) to an a deluded, ambitious older lady (Nicole Kidman, before the Botox) in To Die For.

But who out there suffered through Elephant, Paranoid Park, Gerry and Last Days? Yeah, we didn't think so. Probably because his experiments on getting depressed teens to improvise for the camera became staid and tedious. We were hoping that Milk, with its message of political empowerment and a movement coming into its own, would be the start of the dear director's second act. Guess we were wrong.

Isn't it time to make some more movies about grown ups? Even Woody Allen went from making movies about young neurotic New Yorkers sleeping with girls way out of their league to making movies about old neurotic New Yorkers sleeping with girls way out of their league. The rest of us are miserable too, Gus. Where's our movie?

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